893.00 Tibet/68
The British Embassy to the Department of State 25
Paraphrase of Telegram From the Foreign Office to the British Embassy, Washington, (August 28, 1943)
The Government of India have received information from reliable sources in Tibet stating that the number of Chinese troops in the Jyekmago [?Jyekundo]26 area is considerably greater than the garrisons of former years and that additional troops are being recruited and additional arms are arriving. The Tibetan Government are said to have found it necessary to increase their own forces and there is considerable nervous tension.
The Government of India are instructing their representatives at Lhassa to inform the Tibetan Foreign Office that they have taken note of this information, that they advise them to verify it and to ensure that their own troops do nothing to provoke a frontier incident.
- Handed to the Adviser on Political Relations (Hornbeck) on September 14 by Sir George Sansom of the British Embassy who stated that the British Foreign Office “wish to know whether we would think it possible to have our representative in Chungking express interest in this matter.”↩
- Brackets appear in the original.↩